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If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:01 am
by Gob
for a Xmas present for me...
A Welsh cheese company has launched a £149 advent calendar, measuring more than a metre wide.
Packed with 24 individual 200g portions of artisan Welsh cheese, the calendar from The Welsh Cheese Company contains everything from creamy soft cheeses that would rival any French Brie, to punchy, crowd-pleasing Cheddars and lip-smacking blues.
Containing 9lb of food, the extravagant advent calendar is made up of four separate triangles.
Each individual triangle measures 20in wide by 13in tall and has been designed to be placed in a fridge separately for storage.
1. Cenarth Brie – Rich and Creamy Brie style Cheese (200g)
2 . Bouncing Berry – Mature Cheddar Cheese with Sweetened Dried Cranberries (200g)
3. Heb Enw – Goats Cheese (120g)
4. Cryf – Extra Mature Cheddar (200g)
5. Angiddy – Soft Brie-Style Cheese (150g)
6. Red Storm – Vintage Red Leicester (200g)
7. Tysilio – Goats Cheese (180g)
8. Harlech – Cheddar with Horseradish and Parsley (150g)
9. Beechwood – Naturally Smoked Mature Cheddar (200g)
10. Perl Wen – Creamy White-Rinded Cheese (200g)
11. Organic Halloumi (180g)
12. Caws Preseli – Soft White-Rinded Cheese (200g)
13. Truffle Trove – Extra Mature Cheddar with Black Summer Truffle (150g)
14. Black Sheep – Creamy Sheeps Cheese ( 150g)
15. Tintern – Cheddar with Onions, Chives and Shallots (150g)
16. Ffetys - Feta Style Cheese (120g)
17. Ffili – Light, Creamy Organic Caerffili (200g)
18. Smoked Heb Enw – Goats Cheese (120g)
19. Drewi Sant – Mead-Washed Medium-Soft Cheese (200g)
20. Ruby Mist – Mature Cheddar with Port and Brandy (200g)
21. Y Fenni – Cheddar with Wholegrain Mustard and Ale (150g)
22. Smoked Cerwyn – Oak-Smoked Cheddar (200g)
23. Black Bomber – Extra Mature Cheddar (200g)
24. Perl Las – Creamy Blue-Veined Cheese (200g)
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:48 am
by Crackpot
And for New Years a complete plumbing replacement.
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:11 pm
by Scooter
Can anyone explain what the connection is supposed to be between Advent and cheese, such that Advent cheese calendars became a thing?
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:21 pm
by BoSoxGal
Scooter wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:11 pm
Can anyone explain what the connection is supposed to be between Advent and cheese, such that Advent cheese calendars became a thing?
I found this article tracing it back to a blogger who sold the concept to ASDA.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holida ... calendars/
Aldi now has wine and cheese advent calendars that are a big deal there are the holidays, and you can also find cheese advent calendars from many retailers. There was clearly a market for the concept!
A concession to those who favor savory over sweet?
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:47 pm
by Big RR
Scooter--I have never had an advent calendar, but I thought the point was that the calendar would put you in the mood to celebrate Christmas. The calendars I have seen were usually ones that had a different bible verse or some similar meditation every day, but I would think sweets savories, or even wine can put one in both a contemplative and celebratory mood (or either one of them); and certainly the sellers of them are put in a celbratory mood. Advent is a time to rejoice and celrbrate the coming holiday. Hell, I got a mailing on a pet treat/toy advent calendar (but I see this as akin to pet Halloween costumes--it's for the owners, not the pets).
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:21 pm
by Gob
Scooter wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:11 pm
Can anyone explain what the connection is supposed to be between Advent and cheese, such that Advent cheese calendars became a thing?
Hen once bought me a whisky advent calendar, that was some treat!!
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
by Big RR
I do recall a cheese company called "Cheeses of Nazareth".
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:02 am
by Sue U
Big RR wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:03 pm
I do recall a cheese company called "Cheeses of Nazareth".
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:08 am
by TPFKA@W
I seem to recall that your #'s did not allow for the consumption of that much cheese so I will buy one in your honor and eat it myself.
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:01 pm
by Big RR
Sue--before I go, I'll leave this.
https://www.amazon.com/Cheeses-Nazareth ... B084HJBZ1D
Jesus is a Packers fan--who would have guessed?
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:28 pm
by Bicycle Bill
Our Savior is also a cyclist, of course .... it even says so in the Bible .
"... and on the third day He will ride again." (Luke 18:33)
-"BB"-
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:43 pm
by Scooter
I've always wondered the origin of the Québecois cursing expression "Christ en bicyclette sur Calvaire" (Christ on a bicycle on Calvary). Now I know.
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:26 pm
by Big RR
Not to forget:
Une femme a besoin d'un homme comme le Christ a besoin d'un bicyclette
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:32 pm
by BoSoxGal
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:33 pm
by Big RR
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:22 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
I see he has adopted the halo protective device, as of course did Formula 1.
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:37 pm
by Big RR
But with that flowing robe he'd be better off riding a "girl's" bike.
Re: If you're stuck
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:02 am
by MajGenl.Meade
You genderist, you! Preferred term is a bi-cycle!
